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Windows 7: ghosted a drive need help with boot loader

You have a GPT DISK which doesn't support MBR booting. The screenshots conflict but I'm Assuming its the target HD as Win7 wouldn't boot otherwise.

If so rightclick on the Disk # in Disk Mgmt to Convert to MBR which should bring it to Unallocated space then try the clone. More options should appear or you can mark Active then repair afterwards with all other drives unplugged.

but when I try to boot to it no boot loader is shown. No os is found. The drive is now primary and active.

Please someone correct me if I'm wrong but since I have used computers say well before windows was around a driver letters mean nothing at MBR level. This is what confuses my about today times. Maybe its a win7 thing I dont know, but we used to tarted drive(0) part(1) ect... not by driver letters. So what does

Drive: C:\
Bootloader Path: \Windows\system32\winload.exe

mean? How can a boot loader know what a C: is? Is EBCD converting the disk location to a readable letter, should I change that to x: ? I dont want my OS to use x:\ as %system root%

ok I used MbrFix64 to fix the mbr and sector. Now the new drive shows a boot loader. But instead of booting to its OS its looking at my old OS. So I guess I have to tell the boot loader to boot to x: but I really dont want to do this.

Edit: I changed the bootloader to boot to "boot" instead of c:\ and it started to boot, then did an autocheck failed then blue screen. So this drive letter stuff is just overly confusing IMO. I guess using the win7 disc at this point may get it work.

Yes that is what I was doing, and the drive has a boot loader and it boots, then I get a black screen about auto check disc then a blue screen. So I put in the windows 7 install CD and let it run its checks and on the second go if found the problem and told me it cant fix it. Under the details it complained about a bad driver.

The cloned Disc is a SSD, maybe the MB stata driver is causing issue? So I was going to boot in to safe mode and now the MBR is broke again, guessing windows did this. So my plan is to fix it yet and again and this time boot to safe mode.

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